I’m talking about candidates who don’t cloak their prejudice at all. In 2012, the prime offender was Herman Cain. “I happen to side with the people in Murfreesboro,” Cain said, after the residents of that Tennessee town tried to block the building of a mosque. Cain explained that while banning churches or synagogues constitutes religious discrimination, banning mosques does not. Because “Islam is both a religion and a set of laws, Sharia law,” Cain explained, “that’s not discriminating based upon religion.” When asked whether he would feel “comfortable appointing a Muslim, either in your cabinet or as a federal judge?” Cain replied, “No, I will not,” because “there is this creeping attempt, there is this attempt to gradually ease Sharia law and the Muslim faith into our government.”

[…]

That was last time. This time, the most naked bigot in the emerging Republican field is Mike Huckabee. Earlier this week, Huckabee said that “Everything he [Obama] does is against what Christians stand for, and he’s against the Jews in Israel. The one group of people that can know they have his undying, unfailing support would be the Muslim community.” There’s no artifice here. Huckabee’s not condemning Obama for being soft on ISIS or even “radical Islam.” He’s condemning Obama for caring about Muslims. If you don’t see the bigotry, try flipping it around. Imagine if Huckabee had said that Obama “is against what Christians stand for, and he’s against the Muslims in the Middle East. The one group of people that can know they have his undying, unfailing support would be the Jewish community.” Republicans would be, rightly, calling for his head.

There’s a pattern here. In 2011, Huckabee said Christians shouldn’t rent space in their churches to Muslims because “Muslim group[s]” say “that Jesus Christ and all the people that follow him are a bunch of infidels who should be essentially obliterated.” Huckabee wasn’t talking about al-Qaeda. He accused ordinary American Muslims, who might need space to pray, of wanting to see Christians “obliterated.” Then, in 2013, he called Islam “a religion that promotes the most murderous mayhem on the planet in their so-called holiest days.” Not al-Qaeda or jihadists or terrorists, but Islam itself. According to Huckabee, in other words, Muslims want Christians “obliterated” and Islam promotes murder. He went on to say that “the Muslims will go to the mosque, and they will have their day of prayer, and they come out of there like uncorked animals—throwing rocks and burning cars.”

Uncorked animals. Not very subtle. Yet if there’s a single prominent conservative who has said Huckabee’s anti-Muslim slurs disqualify him as a presidential candidate, I haven’t come across them.

Here is where Ferguson really got it wrong - the side of the economic debate that realy does not give a crap about future generations is the anti-science crowd on the right.

ut in a message posted on his personal website today, Ferguson wrote that the comments were “as stupid as they were insensitive.”

He continued: “I should not have suggested - in an off-the-cuff response that was not part of my presentation - that Keynes was indifferent to the long run because he had no children, nor that he had no children because he was gay. This was doubly stupid. First, it is obvious that people who do not have children also care about future generations. Second, I had forgotten that Keynes’s wife Lydia miscarried.

“My disagreements with Keynes’s economic philosophy have never had anything to do with his sexual orientation. It is simply false to suggest, as I did, that his approach to economic policy was inspired by any aspect of his personal life. As those who know me and my work are well aware, I detest all prejudice, sexual or otherwise.”

At a time when obesity is seen as a serious public health threat, research has found a growing prejudice against fat people.

Last week, the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University published a study suggesting that male jurors didn’t administer blind justice when it came to plus-size female defendants.

Female jurors displayed no prejudice against fat defendants but men — especially lean men — were far more likely to slap a guilty verdict on an overweight woman and were quicker to label her a repeat offender with an “awareness of her crimes.”

Another recent study by the Center for Creative Leadership found that top managers with a high body mass index were judged more harshly and seen as less effective than their slimmer colleagues by their peers, both at work and in interpersonal relationships.

Rebecca Puhl, one of the Yale researchers who co-wrote the juror study, said these displays of fat stigma are par for the course.

“Thinness has come to symbolize important values in our society, values such as discipline, hard work, ambition and willpower. If you’re not thin, then you don’t have them,” she said.

Previous research by Puhl and her associates found that prejudice against fat people was pervasive and translated into inequities across broad areas of life.

Some examples: Fifty percent of doctors found that fat patients were “awkward, ugly, weak-willed and unlikely to comply with treatment” and 24 percent of nurses said they were repulsed by their obese patients. Nearly 30 percent of teachers said that becoming obese was “the worst thing that can happen to someone” – and more than 70 percent of obese people said they had been ridiculed about their weight by a family member.

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The following video is from November 16th, 2012 in San Francisco. Here we see the rally winding down, so to speak, but the hate speech is alive and well. The crowd is now mostly comprised of “youths” who have stolen an Israeli flag and are desecrating it with bloodlust.

Here’s another short clip, also from November 16th in downtown San Francisco, across the street from the Israeli Consulate.

It’s common for the ‘peace activists’ to wander across the street and start verbal and sometimes physical fights with anyone who has the audacity to stand up for Israel. We are rather easy to identify, holding up signs like “Free Gaza from Hamas,” or toting an Israeli or U.S. flag.

Peace groups, like ANSWER, routinely show up at “rallies for peace” to bash Israel and Jews. They, like many others, use “Zionist” to replace “Jew” so as to appear nuanced with their politics. It’s a joke.

We know Zionism drove the creation of the State of Israel forward. However, chanting “death to the Jews,” even among the ranks of hard-core activists, is known to be bad for public relations. Tends to turn people away from you, rather than towards. Anyway…

This is from Thursday November 15th. it’s a very short clip. As usual, the much larger crowd of peace activists are allowed to stand in front of the Israeli Consulate at 456 Montgomery Street, while those of us who also want peace AND desire Israel’s continued existence, stand across from them. SFPD seems satisfied with this arrangement and overall it works rather well.

On Nov.16, 20112 at the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco a woman was arrested for assaulting a peaceful protestor, standing in solidarity with Israel Her response to the arrest? “F**k you Jew”
This blatant Antisemitism was at a rally sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace, the Arab Resource Organizing Center, and Al Awda. Jewish Voice for Peace routinely stands side by side with the most extreme haters in the area, and turns a blind eye to the Antisemitism in its midst

Note: This saga began on Monday evening, Oct. 1, and has been developing ever since. A series of updates — including the discovery of a 1943 Nazi propaganda film that was also promoted by the Free Gaza Movement, improbable excuses offered by the organization’s secretary, and a panicked response by the organization’s past/present chair — appear at the bottom.

1. I’m sorry but that’s the truth. Blackmaleness is a potentially fatal condition. I tell you that not to scare you but because knowing that could possibly save your life. There are people who will look at you and see a villain or a criminal or something fearsome. It’s possible they may act on their prejudice and insecurity. Being Black could turn an ordinary situation into a life or death moment even if you’re doing nothing wrong.

2. If you encounter such a situation, you need to play it cool. Keep your wits about you. Don’t worry about winning the situation, your goal is to survive.

3. There is nothing wrong with you. You’re amazing. I love you. When I look at you I see a complex human being with awesome potential but some others will look at you and see a thug. Even if their only evidence is your skin. Their racism relates to larger anxieties and problems in America that you didn’t create. When someone is racist toward you—either because they’ve profiled you or spat some slur or whatever—they are saying they have a problem. They are not speaking about you. They’re speaking about themselves and their deficiencies.

4. You will have to make allowances for other people’s racism. That’s part of the burden of being Black. We can be defiant and dead or smart and alive. I’m not saying you can’t wear what you want. Your clothes are a red herring. They’ll blame it on your hoodie or your jeans when the real reason they decided that you were a criminal is you’re Black. Of course, you know better. Racism is about reminding you that you are less human, less valuable, less worthy, less beautiful, less intelligent. It’s about pre-judging you as violent, fearsome, a threat. Some people will take that prejudice and try to enforce their will on you in order to make sure you feel like a second-class citizen and to make certain that you get back to the lower-class place they think you’re trying to escape. The best way to counter them will not involve your fists but your mind. You know your value to the world and how awesome you are. If you never forget that, they can’t damage your spirit. The best revenge is surviving and living well.

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